Is Antigone a tragic play as defined by Aristotle?
Antigone is not a tragic play. Rather it is a
theological debate spawned by Sophocles, a debate
that is still raging today, the debate of who
holds the higher law, the Gods or the State. While
this debate has slowly twisted into Church versus
State, which is a very different argument, the
highest questions still remain the same: Which one
is held higher in men's (and women's) hearts?
Antigone answers this question with shocking
clarity in her ad...

The Revolutionary War was an enormous part of
American history. The revolution in Russia, that
sparked the overthrow of communism, was a huge
part of Russian history. The revolution of
Christianity from the concepts of Greek gods was
also a large part of religious history.
Christianity and Greek gods have many comparisons,
contrasts, and these contrasts resulted in
Christianity being revolutionary. The concepts of
Christianity and the religious concepts of the
Greek gods are comparatively alike....

The Gods vs. Man God. That one word has a lot of
weight to it, doesn't it It had even more
significance to the Greeks. It was something they
feared and respected. Throughout history men have
always wanted to be like the gods. It is something
that is seen over and over, man's universal
struggle to be like the gods. Is it man's fault
that he wants to be like the gods Or is it the
gods' fault The story Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
shows that man's arrogance and fallible
personality is the cause of thi...

The American Heritage Dictionary defines a god as
"1. A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent,
omniscient ruler and originator of the universe,
the principal object of faith and worship in
monotheist religions. 2. A being of supernatural
powers, believed in and worshiped by a people."
(360) I believe the first definition reflects
Modern America's connotation of the word god. The
latter definition recalls the Ancient
Greco-Sumerian ideal of a being greater than man.
While both definitions ar...

Divine Power in Greek Religion Most religions have
some sort of a divine being or beings. Some
religions focus on one god or higher power while
others have multiple gods. Usually a god is
omnipotent or all- powerful if he or she acts
alone versus multiple gods who usually have
respective limited powers. The Christian religion
has a central being that is all-powerful and
controls every aspect of mankind from fate among
the living to the outcome of one after he has
perished whereas the Greek relig...

At the time of the Spanish conquest, the religion
of the Aztecs was polytheistic, based on the
worship of a multitude of personal gods, most of
them with well-defined attributes. Nevertheless,
magic and the idea of certain impersonal and
occult forces played an important role among the
people. There was, in addition, among the
uneducated classes tendency to exaggerate
polytheism by conceiving of as gods, also, what to
the priests, were only manifestations or
attributes of one god (Caso, 1987). E...

Egyptian, Babylonian, and Hebrew Religions
Egyptians, Babylonians, and Hebrews have
similarities yet also differences in their
religions. The importance is not in the
similarities as much as it is in the differences
that distinguish the cultures from each other and
their views on life. I would like to point out
each civilization's creation and flood story. By
analyzing these stories we can come to a better
understanding of their worldviews. The Hebrew
creation story from the book of Genesis is ...

No matter what you think the ancient Greeks were
not on drugs. The people of ancient Greece had an
extremely intelligent society. They had
sophisticated architecture and a very high level
of mathematics in their culture. These areas of
life dealt with real things that could be
controlled. When it came to natural phenomena the
Greeks had certain explanations that might look
eccentric now, but were reasonable 3000 years ago.
In Greece history there are several themes that
contributed to Greek myt...

Zeus was the son of Cronus and Rhea, an earlier
race of ruling gods called Titans. Cronus was king
of all the Titans. Zeuswas the brother of Hades
and Poseidon, Hades was the god of the underworld
and Poseidon was the god of the sea. Together they
overthrew their father and the rest of the Titans.
All thanks was due to Zeus for the dethroning of
Cronus. You see, before cronus ever had children
he heard a prophecy that one of his overthrow him,
so whenever his wife would have a child he would
sw...

Homer, Comparison And Contrast Of The Gods In
Homer's Epics With The God Of The Hebrews Tucker 1
Bobby Tucker Ms. Barrett English 2205 30 October
2000 Word Count: 2900 Comparison and Contrast of
the gods in Homers epics with the God of the
Hebrews There are many similarities and
differences between the Greek gods and the Hebrew
God. These similarities and differences are
revealed in the character and functionality of the
gods. The revelation of similarities and
differences can also be seen in ma...

How did people revere their gods differently among
three civilizations? Did they worship with the
same general intent? What were gods' role (s) in
people's lives? A brief exploration into the
religions of Egypt, Greece, and the Hebrew people
may bring insight to these questions. Although the
main idea of higher beings remains constant
throughout societies' religion, their form of
presence in people's lives varies. I will present
the relationship between the leaders and the gods,
as well as resem...

Is there really life after death Different
cultures and people interpret the afterlife in a
variety of ways, depending on their view of their
gods and their interaction with those gods. In
this paper, I will discuss the Mesopotamians,
Egyptians, and Indians and their beliefs about
what happens to a soul after death. Mesopotamia
Between the two rivers of the Tigris and the
Euphrates, lies a land that is now the eastern
half of Iraq. However, many years ago, around 5000
B. C. E. , this land was c...

"To some extent, mythology is only the most
ancient history and biography. So far from being
false or fabulous in the common sense, it contains
only enduring and essential truth, the I and you,
the here and there, the now and then, being
omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it." -
Henry David Thoreau (1849) Every culture has
evolved its own mythology, defining its character
and offering a way to understand the world. Myths
of every culture reveal the power of love, with
it, its accompanyin...

In his dialogue Euthyphro, Plato poses the
question of whether the gods love what is holy
because it is holy or whether it is holy because
the gods love it. The corresponding question in
terms of ethics is whether God loves the good
because it is good or whether it is good because
God loves it. Divine command theorists give a
clear and unequivocal answer to this question in
the area of ethics: they maintain whatever is good
is good only because God wills it to be good. This
has serious implicati...

The Power of the Gods In the play, Oedipus the
King, written by Sophocles, Oedipus is rewarded
king of Thebes when he frees the city from death
by correctly answering a riddle by the deadly
Sphinx. You came to Cadmus city and unbound the
tax we had to pay to the harsh singer, did it
without a helpful word from us, with no
instruction; with a god s assistance you raised up
our life, so we believe. The play begins with begs
and pleads by the priest of Zeus who speaks for
the Theban people. The pri...

Ethics and morality are synonymous terms, both
meaning customs in their original languages, Greek
and Latin respectively. However, the Greek term
ethics also implies character as opposed to its
Latin counterpart referring to social customs. Et
hike is descended from ethikos which, in turn from
ethos which means character or nature. Ethos is
the fundamental and distinctive characteristic of
a group within its social context or period of
time, typically expressed in its attitudes, habits
or belief...

Antigone Judgment Play Human beings by nature
judge both themselves and others. Judgment comes
through a person s ego telling them that they can
have control over a particular situation. This
desire for control promulgates a false sense of
responsibility in essentially uncontrollable
situations. For example, a human feels a
responsibility to the dead. Humans build mental
and physical shrines for the dead. They mourn the
dead with funerals. Most people practice
specified burial rituals to ensure...

In Ancient Greece, many people believed in many
different gods, each god had a different purpose
and a different meaning. The Greek gods were like
humans, they looked like us and they had the same
feelings as us. Greek Mythology was not used to
teach anyone in any Spiritual way unlike new
religions such as Hinduism or Judaism. The Greeks
believed that the gods chose mount Olympus, in a
region of Greece called Thessaly, as their home.
The Gods became associated with three main
domains, which were...

Around the time 4, 000-1, 000 BC there were two
major western civilizations. Those civilizations
were the Ancient Egyptians and the Mesopotamians.
Many similarities exist between the civilizations
of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as many
differences. Both Egypt and Mesopotamia were
polytheistic, that is, they believed their worlds
were ruled by more than one god. Both cultures
also believed that they themselves were created
for the purpose of serving their gods. Their
similarities incl...

Ancient Egypt Term paper Gods for the Egyptians
were thought of as being human beings of a divine
power that controls the past and future of the
universe. Each divine being is a deity worthy of
being loved; or capable of inspiring awe,
obedience, and even fear. The effect of the above
feelings on people lead them to setting-up of a
system of worship of the deity, code of beliefs
and to do things inspired by their religious
faith. The Ancient Egyptian religion is much
different from today's moder...